# Thierry Marie

Thierry Marie (born 25 June 1963) is a French former cyclist. Marie often performed well in prologue stages: he won the Tour de France prologue three times in his career, and because of that he wore the yellow jersey in those three years, for seven days in total. He also competed in the team time trial event at the 1984 Summer Olympics. On stage six of the 1991 Tour de France Marie rode alone for six hours and 234 km to win the stage and set the record for the longest post-war successful breakaway.
Marie along with Greg LeMond was one of the first cyclists to experiment with aerodynamic improvements.

## Major results
### 1984

    1st Paris–Roubaix Espoirs
    5th Tour de Normandie

### 1985

    1st Overall Tour du Limousin
    1st Duo Normand (with Charly Mottet)
    1st Stage 3 Grand Prix du Midi Libre
    1st Prologue Tour de l'Avenir
    2nd Grand Prix des Nations
    5th GP Ouest–France
    6th Overall Circuit de la Sarthe
    7th Grand Prix de Rennes
    9th Paris–Tours
    9th Critérium des As
    10th Paris–Camembert

### 1986

    Tour de France
       1st Prologue & Stage 2 (TTT)
       Held after Prologue & Stages 2–3
       Held after Prologue
    Vuelta a España
       1st Prologue
       Held after Prologue
    1st Stage 2b Volta a Catalunya
    3rd Overall Tour de l'Aude
       1st Prologue
    3rd Paris–Camembert
    4th Overall Three Days of De Panne

### 1987

    1st Overall Tour d'Armorique
       1st Prologue
    1st Duo Normand (with Gérard Rué)

### 1988

    1st Overall Ronde van Nederland
    1st Overall Circuit de la Sarthe
       1st Stage 1 (ITT)
    1st Duo Normand (with Philippe Bouvatier)
    1st Stage 20 Tour de France
    1st Stage 2 Subida a Arrate
    3rd Overall Tour d'Armorique
       1st Stage 3b (ITT)
    3rd Trofeo Baracchi (with Charly Mottet)
    3rd Grand Prix de Denain
    8th Overall Four Days of Dunkirk

### 1989

    1st Trofeo Baracchi (with Laurent Fignon)
    1st Baden-Baden (with Laurent Fignon)
    1st Prologue Paris–Nice
    1st Prologue Tour of Belgium
    1st Stage 2 (TTT) Tour de France
    2nd Overall Ronde van Nederland
       1st Stage 2b (ITT)
    2nd Overall Four Days of Dunkirk
       1st Stages 1 & 6a (ITT)
    2nd Grand Prix de Denain
    2nd Grand Prix de la Libération
    4th Grand Prix Eddy Merckx
    9th Overall Three Days of De Panne

### 1990

    1st Paris–Camembert
    Tour de France
       1st Prologue
       Held & after Prologue
    3rd Overall Ronde van Nederland
       1st Stage 5 (ITT)
    3rd Overall Four Days of Dunkirk
       1st Stages 3 (ITT) & 7
    3rd Overall Circuit de la Sarthe
    5th Trofeo Baracchi (with Gérard Rué)
    9th Grand Prix Eddy Merckx

### 1991

    1st Polynormande
    Tour de France
       1st Prologue & Stage 6
       Held after Prologue & Stages 6–7
       Held after Prologue
       Held after Stage 6
    1st Stage 1 (ITT) Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré
    1st Prologue Paris–Nice
    1st Prologue Grand Prix du Midi Libre
    1st Stage 4 (ITT) Tour d'Armorique
    2nd Overall Tour de l'Oise
       1st Stage 4 (ITT)
    2nd Chrono des Herbiers
    3rd Tour de Vendée
    4th Overall Ronde van Nederland
    5th Overall Circuit de la Sarthe

### 1992

    1st Overall Tour de l'Oise
       1st Stage 4 (ITT)
    Giro d'Italia
       1st Prologue
       Held after Prologue & Stage 1
       Held after Prologue
    1st Stage 18 Tour de France
    2nd Road race, National Road Championships
    2nd Overall Ronde van Nederland
    3rd Overall Three Days of De Panne
       1st Stage 1b (ITT)
    3rd Circuit de l'Aulne
    3rd Grand Prix Eddy Merckx
    7th Trofeo Pantalica
    8th Chrono des Herbiers

### 1993

    1st Overall Tour du Poitou Charentes et de la Vienne
       1st Stage 5 (ITT)
    1st Stage 4 Vuelta a Burgos
    3rd Telekom Grand Prix (with Pascal Lino)
    9th Grand Prix de Denain

### 1994

    2nd Chrono des Herbiers
    3rd Grand Prix des Nations
    4th Overall Four Days of Dunkirk
    5th Grand Prix Eddy Merckx
    6th Overall Three Days of De Panne
    6th Overall Tour de l'Oise
    6th Telekom Grand Prix (with Thomas Davy
    7th Time trial, UCI Road World Championships

### 1995

    1st Time trial, National Road Championships
    1st Overall Circuit de la Sarthe
       1st Stage 2
    1st La Côte Picarde
    1st Châteauroux Classic
    1st Stage 1b (ITT) Route du Sud
    4th Overall Tour de l'Oise
    4th Telekom Grand Prix (with Laurent Madouas)
    5th Paris–Camembert
    7th Cholet-Pays de la Loire

### 1996

    2nd Route Adélie
    7th Tour de Vendée

### Grand Tour general classification results timeline

| Grand Tour | 1985 | 1986 | 1987 | 1988 | 1989 | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 |
| Vuelta a España | — | DNF | — | — | — | — | — | — | 109 | — | — | — |
| Giro d'Italia | — | — | — | — | 116 | 119 | — | 127 | — | DNF | — | — |
| Tour de France | 67 | 108 | 87 | 98 | 72 | 121 | 111 | 114 | DNF | 53 | 94 | DNF |
Legend :
| — | Did not compete |
| DNF | Did not finish |